The Guitar of Preston Reed Expanding The Realm Of Acoustic Playing. On this fascinating video, Preston introduces you to the wide variety of sounds that you can coax from your guitar. He teaches the “rim shots” and “bongo hits”, the slap harmonics, double hammer-ons, two-hand tapping, right-hand fretting and other techniques that will give your playing originality, movement and excitement. Preston plays and analyzes three of his show-stopping instrumental compositions – Slap Funk, Border Towns, and Tribes – detailing the techniques and tunings he uses to get his distinctive sound. By learning these tunes, you’ll develop right- and left-hand...

First 50 Songs You Should Play on Acoustic Guitar PDF. If you’re new to the guitar, you are probably eager to learn some songs. This book provides a combo of tab, chords, and lyrics for the most popular songs beginning guitarists want to play on the acoustic guitar. This is a great book to use at home to learn some of those core songs everyone plays, and it’s good to have on hand if you are in a jam session or group performance and you need to learn how to play some of these common songs at a moment’s...

Dave Limina Hammond Organ Complete PDF. Tunes, Tones and Techniques for Drawbar Keyboards. The secret to creating funky sizzles and classic Hammond sounds is mastering the combined use of the drawbars, expression pedal, and the Leslie speaker speed switch. Sound intimidating? It doesn’t have to be! This hands-on guide takes you step-by-step through the techniques of playing the drawbar organ, one skill at a time. You’ll learn to: play gospel, R&B, jazz, blues, funk and rock; achieve fantastic special effects; understand all the parts of the organ and how to use them; and much more. The accompanying CD includes...

Doug Wimbish New Dimensions For Bass download free. Learn the basic rudiments that make up Doug’s unique sound and style. Everything from his personal warm-ups, and right-hand variations to his famous Flamenco Slap and false harmonics. You will also learn how to construct bass lines for almost any style of music and he concentrates on Hip-Hop, Rock, Funk and Jazz. The lesson also includes a section on using effects and making your bass sound like other instruments such as Guitar, keyboard, drums and even DJ scratching sounds! The guy is entertaining, some interesting right hand techniques are discussed, some...

First 50 Songs You Should Fingerpick On Guitar PDF. Do you feel you’ve learned enough fingerstyle technique to start playing some real tunes? If so, this is the book for you. This is a delightful collection of old and new, popular and eclectic tunes. It is in the “cheat sheet” format, ie very accessible but at the same time pretty accurately transcribed. There are some advanced songs included that go well beyond the “first 50” fingerpicking tunes a players might attempt, very worthwhile to spend the effort, though. It mostly shows chords and picking patterns for intros, then lyrics...

Bass Play-Along Volume 5 Funk PDF. The Bass Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab, listen to the CD to hear how the bass should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in the book in case you want to sing, or to simply help you follow along. The audio CD is playable on any CD player. For PC and Mac computer users, the CD is enhanced so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch! A...

Flavor your rhythm section with heaping portions of Funk, Rock, R&B, a pinch of Hip-Hop, and a touch of Worldbeat until feet, head and torso start moving involuntarily. Season to taste with modern harmony and pungent improvisation. Bake to the beat. You’ve just cooked up Jazz Rock aka Acid Jazz aka Jazz Funk aka Jam Funk aka Groove Jazz aka Jazz Fusion. Call it what you like but for the purpose of this educational experience with Fareed Haque, we’re going with Jazz Rock Workshop aka How To Hipify, Soulify, Funkify and Raga-ize Your Pentatonics. For those of you ready...

Outta Sight Funk and R&B Riffs for Bass PDF. 55 bass riffs for beginner to advanced level. Outta Sight Funk and R&B Riffs for Bass is designed to help bass players and also keyboard players improve their bass playing technique with a wide range of different Funk riffs and grooves. The book starts off with easier examples and gradually increases in difficulty as the examples become more syncopated. This book is a companion to Outta Sight Funk & R&B Patterns for Drums While living in London during his early 20’s Andrew had the opportunity of developing his Funk &...

Charles Dowd – A Funky Thesaurus for the Rock Drummer PDF. In this sequel to A Funky Primer, World renowned drummer Charles Dowd helps to add Afro-Cuban rhythms and Odd-Meter Rock beats to a drummers repertoire. Suitable for all percussionists, it introduces certain mechanics of these new styles, focuses on skill building and reinforces practical skills. Many genres of music are covered here; such as African, funk and jazz; all grounded in straight rock or Latin eighths. An invaluable guide for drummers who want to improve improvisation, reading, technique and stylistic taste. Keeping time is the most important function...

David Garibaldi Future Sounds PDF. Future Sounds is a presentation of ideas for the drum set that is applicable to, and inspired by, contemporary music. The main objective of this work is to help the aspiring drummer in the lengthy process of becoming an individual with a unique, original drum-set vocabulary. One reason good players become great is that at some point in their development they began to focus on what they wanted to express musically instead of continuing to copy their favorite players. Ideally, through lots of playing, practicing, thinking things through, listening, exchanging ideas with others and...